Verona

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From the Italian Verona and the Latin Vērōna.

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Verona

  1. A city straddling the river Adige in Veneto, northern Italy, and the capital city of the province of the same name.
    • c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act PROLOGUE, (please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:
      Two households, both alike in dignity, // In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, // From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, // Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
    • 1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread , chapter 6:
      ...it was nearly the middle of August before he went out to meet Harriet in the Tirol. He found his sister in a dense cloud five thousand feet above the sea, chilled to the bone, overfed, bored, and not at all unwilling to be fetched away. [...] They travelled for thirteen hours down-hill, whilst the streams broadened and the mountains shrank, and the vegetation changed, and the people ceased being ugly and drinking beer, and began instead to drink wine and to be beautiful. And the train which had picked them at sunrise out of a waste of glaciers and hotels was waltzing at sunset round the walls of Verona.
  2. A province of Veneto, in northern Italy.
  3. A village in Illinois.
  4. A census-designated place in Kentucky.
  5. A city in Mississippi.
  6. A city and town in Missouri.
  7. A township in New Jersey.
  8. A town in New York.
  9. A city and village in North Dakota.
  10. A village in Ohio.
  11. A borough of Pennsylvania.
  12. A city and town in Wisconsin.
  13. A habitational surname from Italian.
  14. A female given name.

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Verona f

  1. Verona (a city and province of Italy)

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German[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Contraction of Veronika.

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Verona f

  1. a female given name

Italian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Latin Vērōna.

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  • IPA(key): /veˈro.na/
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  • Rhymes: -ona
  • Hyphenation: Ve‧ró‧na

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Verona f

  1. A city and province of Veneto, Italy

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  • → English: Verona

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Celtic name *Vernomago, from Proto-Celtic *wernā (“alder”) + *magos (“field”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Vērōna (nom., voc.)
Vērōnā (abl.)

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Vērōna f sg (genitive Vērōnae); first declension

  1. Verona (a city in Transpadane Gaul, the birthplace of the poet Catullus and of Pliny the Elder)
    • 27–25 BC, Titus Livius Patavinus, Ab Urbe Condita Libri, book V, chapter xxxv:
      Alia subinde manus Cenomanorum Etitovio duce vestigia priorum secuta eodem saltu favente Belloveso cum transcendisset Alpes, ubi nunc Brixia ac Verona urbes sunt locos tenuere.
      Presently another band, consisting of Cenomani led by Etitovius, followed in the tracks of the earlier emigrants; and having, with the approval of Bellovesus, crossed the Alps by the same pass, established themselves where the cities of Brixia and Verona are-now. ― translation from: Benjamin Oliver Foster, The History of Early Rome (1919), pages 119–121
  2. (Medieval Latin) Bonn (a city on the Rhine in modern-day Germany)
    Synonyms: Bonna, Castra Bonnensia

Declension[edit]

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative Vērōna
Genitive Vērōnae
Dative Vērōnae
Accusative Vērōnam
Ablative Vērōnā
Vocative Vērōna
Locative Vērōnae

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References[edit]

  • “Verona”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
  • “Vērōna”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Verona in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • John Everett-Heath (2017): The Concise Dictionary of World Place Names

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Portuguese Wikipedia has an article on:
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  • Hyphenation: Ve‧ro‧na

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Verona f

  1. Verona (a city and province of Veneto, Italy)

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Spanish[edit]

Spanish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /beˈɾona/ [beˈɾo.na]
  • Rhymes: -ona
  • Syllabification: Ve‧ro‧na

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Verona f

  1. Verona (a city and province of Italy)

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